Permanent income hypothesis

Permanent income hypothesis [r]: The theory proposed by Milton Friedman that consumers attempt to adjust their consumption in response to variations in income in order to maintain an unvarying living standard - thus limiting their short-term response to a fiscal stimulus. ^[e]

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